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Protect Apache Against Brute Force or DDoS Attacks Using Mod_Security and Mod_evasive Modules

Tecmint - Tue, 08/04/2020 - 14:41
For those of you in the hosting business, or if you’re hosting your own servers and exposing them to the Internet, securing your systems against attackers must be a high priority. mod_security (open-source intrusion

How to Install and Use Linux Malware Detect (LMD) with ClamAV as Antivirus Engine

Tecmint - Tue, 08/04/2020 - 12:45
Malware, or malicious software, is the designation given to any program that aims at disrupting the normal operation of a computing system. Although the most well-known forms of malware are viruses, spyware, and adware,

Intel's Open-Source H.265/HEVC Encoder Sees First Release Of 2020

Phoronix - Tue, 08/04/2020 - 12:03
Intel's Scalable Video Technology team is known for their open-source video encoder work particularly on AV1 and VP9 formats, but they also continue to maintain a high performance H.265/HEVC encoder as well. Intel SVT-HEVC 1.5 was released on Monday as their first major update of the year...

Creating an enterprise service request bridge between ServiceNow ITOM and Red Hat Ansible Tower

Red Hat News - Tue, 08/04/2020 - 12:00

At Keyva, we see clients in all phases of their automation journey. Some organizations are just starting out and automating domain lifecycle tasks, such as provisioning firewall rules or automating server builds, while others may be well down the path of creating self-service IT capabilities. In most cases, regardless of where a team is on its journey, they eventually want to arrive at the point where they can provide self-service IT capabilities to the teams and users that want to consume them. 

Intel SERIALIZE, Dropping Of SGI UV Supercomputer, i386 Clang'ing Hit Linux 5.9

Phoronix - Tue, 08/04/2020 - 08:48
A number of x86-related changes were sent out today for the first full day of the Linux 5.9 merge window...

AMD HSA Offloading Support Dropped From The GCC Compiler

Phoronix - Tue, 08/04/2020 - 06:47
There didn't appear to be much usage ever out of the AMD HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) support within the GCC compiler and hadn't been maintained in a while so now has been wiped out of the GNU Compiler Collection...

Btrfs Seeing Some Nice Performance Improvements For Linux 5.9

Phoronix - Tue, 08/04/2020 - 03:00
With more eyes on Btrfs given the file-system is set to become the default for Fedora 33 desktop spins, there are some interesting performance optimizations coming to Btrfs with the in-development Linux 5.9 kernel...

Kernel Developers Work To Block NVIDIA "GPL Condom" Effort Around New NetGPU Code

Phoronix - Tue, 08/04/2020 - 01:22
Linux kernel developers are working on tightening up the access around GPL-only kernel symbols and kernel shims that interface with proprietary kernel modules. This latest work is being driven by code recently put out for improving the Linux networking code where NVIDIA's proprietary kernel driver would be the initial consumer...

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